Transfer of game to another PC

[Ballbarian]

JR77,
Have you tried simply copying the entire dominions3 folder from laptop to desktop. If not, then try that and run the dominions exe from the new folder. Dominions is beautifully self contained and does not rely on any clumsy registry entries. That may not be the problem, but it is certainly worth a try. I transferred my entire dominions install between winXP machines and to my Vista machine and it has ran without a glitch. I can't remember if there were any running server games at that time, but I suspect there was at least one. Can't remember for certain now.